Jazz Ukulele - Lessons

learn how to build your 9#11, 7#5-9, 13b5, 7+9 on the fly.

An introduction to the series of lessons for building your core, essential 4-part chords.

Links and resources for developing the necessary jazz skills required as a jazz `ukulele player.

Six essential scale that can get through a wide variety of traditional and contemporary music.

You only need three Diminished scales to cover all 15 keys.

You only need two whole tone scales to cover all keys.

The 9th, 11th, and 13ths of a chord.

The term scale and mode are used interchangeably and in a strict theory sense there is a big difference between a scale and a mo

Common classic song endings that are used over and over in the standard song repertoire.

A tetrachord is a series of four tones filling in the interval of a perfect fourth. This smaller module becomes a bit more manag

Introductions and turnarounds in contemporary pop, rock, blues, country, folk and jazz styles.

The same F7, C tuning fingerings would apply to C7 in G tuning and G7 in D tuning.

Chords of ALL 15 major and minor keys.

Moving notes, chords, scales or any musical passages from one key to another key.

Sequences and cycles for practicing scales, intervals, melodic sequences and arpeggios.

Using chord voice leading principles to explore the 1 2 3 4 string set.

Determining the correct name of a chord.

These are the chords do not typically show up in chord dictionaries or song books.

A non-traditional fingering for the G7 chord.

The fourth Seventh chord to build your core "Jazz" chord vocabulary.

The third Seventh chord to build your core "Jazz" chord vocabulary.

The first Seventh chord to build your core "Jazz" chord vocabulary.

The second Seventh chord to build your core "Jazz" chord vocabulary.

Melody, chords, licks and riffs all can be related back to scales.

A rare chord, a diminished triad with a major seventh.

Not all seventh chords are actually "Dominant" seventh chords.

A Pro's approach to build your "Jazz" chords.

A modern usage a tetrachord using any four-note segment of a scale or tone row including the augmented fourth (+4).

These more sophisticated, contemporary chord voicings find their way into a wide variety of music.

Secondary chords are a type of altered or borrowed chord, chords which are not part of the key the piece is in.

Your "Jazz" chord foundation.

Your level I core, 4-part "Jazz" chords.